Leave Georgetown early for Iwokrama River Lodge. Options include a 4×4 vehicle for an 8 hour adventurous drive to the River Lodge through a historic mining town into dense rainforest. Alternatively you can travel through one of the local Guyana airlines, which will provide unparalleled views of the rainforest on your hour –long flight to the Iwokrama Forest. Arrive just in time to relax before lunch and get settled in to your room.
After lunch you will leave the River Lodge and continue south-west along the Iwokrama Road to the Atta Rainforest Lodge and Iwokrama Canopy Walkway. If you are lucky you may catch a glimpse of the elusive Jaguar, South America’s largest cat. The 154 metre state-of-the-art Iwokrama Canopy Walkway offers a totally unique experience in the region and envelopes you in the jungle’s mid-level canopy through a series of suspension bridges and decks from heights of up to 30 metres. Here you’ll have the chance to see birds like the Green Aracari, Scarlet Macaw, Guianan Toucanette or Channel-Bill Toucan. Red Howler Monkeys also make an appearane. Check out the epiphytes such orchids and bromeliads, and look for the amazing parasitic ficus plant as it engulfs another tree. You can also see the Greenheart tree, the Waramadan tree (endemic in Guyana only to the Iwokrama Forest) and the poisonous Aromata tree! Return to the River Lodge and spend a relaxing evening enjoying dinner overlooking the scenic vistas of the Essequibo River.